It started on a silent night.
The whole damn silence devoured the town, leaving nothing but the sound of the wind sweeping through every window, including her room's.
Roads were sure filled with bright street lights. But not a person dared to step out of their houses.
No one dared to leave the heat of their own houses and face the freezing temperature outside.
It isn't winter. Because their country has no winter. Dream on, dudes.
Pero unang-una sa lahat, Filipino po ako. Marunong ako magTagalog. Huehue.
But as mentioned, no one dared to go outside. Everyone stayed inside and did their thing...including this girl who continues to stare at her ceiling, wondering about how millions of words were coined and how infinite the universe is. Wow, just...weird. How can infinity be explained, right?
Nah, she isn't thinking about fantasy. Kasi ni minsa'y hindi niya naisipang pag-interesan ang mga bagay na wala namang bahid ng katotohanan. She is thinking about the real ones, the literal ones, the existing ones that barely had an explanation.
She is an explorer. But she is an explorer in this real world.
She never explores in daydreams and such. She explores in a wild atmosphere of plain facts. Oo, facts. Isa siyang fact shit. Joke. Sa katotohanan lang siya naaadik.
Pearl Nympha Realistica, as realistic as her surname. Odiba bongga. Pati apelyido may purong katotohanan.
17 years old na siya at nag-aaral nilang isang Grade 12 student.
And...she's an orphan. Oo, sa 17 na taon ng kanyang pagkabuhay, minsan lang niya natikman ang haplos ng kanyang tunay na mga magulang.
Walong taong gulang pa lamang aiya nang sila ay umalia. Naalala pa niya ang kanilang mga mukha, kanilang mga boses, at ang mga bagay bagay na tinuro nila sa kanya. At oo, miss na miss na niya ang kanyang mga magulang.
Her aunt and uncle give her that love that she deserves but all of us know that Mama and Papa's touch are a million times better than anything else.
She's that kind of girl who has an overwhelming intelligence but she never ever tried to show it...not even once.
Matalinong dalaga oo, pero mas ginusto niyang itago ang kanyang katalinuhan at maging isang tahimik na observer sa mga bagay bagay sa paligid.
"Why do I even have big boobs?" biglang tanong niya sa kanyang sarili.
She hates it. Naiinis siya sa tuwing pinagtitinginan siya ng mga lalaki dahil sa kanyang hinaharap. Naiinis siya sa katotohanang hinuhubaran na rin siya sa kanilang isipan, not only once, but many times.
She hates her boobs, seriously.
Out of the blue, she sighed. It seemed like she ran out if things to think about.
Kaya ipinikit nalang niya ang kanyang mga mata at hinintay ang kung ano mang dumampi sa kanyang isipan para naman mabigyan niya ng mga kasagutan ang mga ito.
"Nasan kaya sina Mama at Papa? Bakit nila ako iniwan"
People say they're dead. No bodies or anything were found. But the fact that there are no traces left, they were considered dead.
Sa lahat ng mga facts na umiikot sa isipan niya, dito siya hindi naniniwala. Sa kabioa ng kanyang makatotohanang personalidad ay hindi nawala ang kanyang paniniwala sa mga posibilidad.
"Are they really dead? Kung hindi, namimiss kaya nila ako? Naalala pa kaya nila ako?" She said with her eyes closed.
"Of course they do," a random male voice responded that made her open her eyes immediately.
Then there she saw in the ceiling she's facing, a giant, black butterfly that's approximately long as her. Its wings are spread and it flaps as if they were going to embrace her.
'Puta. Puta. Puta. Ano to?' tanong niya sa kanyang sarili.
Instead of screaming, her troath seemed to ran out of voice and vibration. Her sense of speech stopped and her body stopped to function.
She was stiff. Cold sweat is all over her face and her eyes are frozen wide open.
She can't move.
Then suddenly, something more strange began to happen that made her say words she didn't want to say.
The big, black butterfly immediately formed into a human...yes, within a glimpse.
Hindi niya kilala ang mukha, pero oo, naging tao ang kanina lamang ay isang malaking nagsasalitang paru-paro, bumagsak, at ngayo'y nakapatong na sa kanya...ang isang di niya kilalang binata.
"PUTANGINA. MAY RAPIST DITOOOOOO! BIRHEN PA AKO MAAWA KAAAAAAA!" pagtitili nito.
